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Ursula Lanvers

Lecturer (German)

The Open University Faculty of Education and Language Studies Department of Languages


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Profile

I joined the German team in 2007, after working as an AL for many years , first in Region 03, then Region 09.

I am a member of L193 (Rundblick) and member of the writing team for the new Beginners Course.

My reserach interests include student motivation, Global English, the language learning crisis in the UK and language learner identity.

Teaching Interests

 

 

I am interested in student motivation and the notion of student-centred learning, looking at how motivation and student attitude relate to societal, political and personal contexts of the learning situation.

Research Interests

My reserach interests include student motivation, Global English, the language learning crisis in the UK and language learner identity.

Current Research

work in progress: The language learning crisis in the British media: a Critical Discourse analysis.

 

Language Education Policy in England: Is Global English the elephant in the room? To appear in Applied Language Studies, August 2011

 

‘The Danish speak so many languages it’s embarrassing’ UK adult language learner identity and motivation.

Paper given June 2011, New Dynamics in language learning, Jyväskylå, Finland

Publications

Journal Article
Lanvers, Ursula (2012). ‘The Danish speak so many languages it’s really embarrassing’. The impact of L1 English on adult language students’ motivation. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 6 (in press).
Lanvers, Ursula (2011). Language Education Policy in England. Is English the elephant in the room? Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies, 5(3), pp. 63–78.
Lanvers, Ursula (2004). Gender in discourse behaviour in parent–child dyads: a literature review. Child: Care, Health and Development, 30(5), pp. 481–493.
Lea, Susan J.; Lanvers, Ursula and Shaw, Steve (2003). Attrition in rape cases: Developing a profile and identifying relevant factors. British Journal of Criminology, 43(3), pp. 583–599.
Burden, Robert; Williams, Marion and Lanvers, Ursula (2002). 'French is the Language of Love and Stuff': student perceptions of issues related to motivation in learning a foreign language. British Educational Research Journal, 28(4), pp. 503–528.
Lanvers, Ursula (2001). Language alternation in infant bilinguals: A developmental approach to codeswitching. International Journal of Bilingualism, 5(4), pp. 437–464.
Lanvers, Ursula (1999). Lexical growth patterns in a bilingual infant: The occurrence and significance of equivalents in the bilingual lexicon. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2(1), pp. 30–52.
Other
Lanvers, Ursula (2009). UK language learner motivation in the age of Global English: what motivation is left? Department of Language & Linguistics, Newcastle University.